Hello Asean Hive Community
I love to post about my one dollar saga meal, which I try to get my lunch at one US dollar or less. However I have to be realistic here, I think it has to stop or it will be forced to stop sooner. Or maybe it has already stopped lol.
You might think that my recent health issue forced me to increase the quality meals I take. Well it is not wrong but not fully right too. The main reason is the inflation. After the last Eid Mubarak, the price did not come back to their initial value. Everything gets more pricey, in general maybe around 10 to 15%.
Actually it is very hard to get good food at a dollar or less. The same meal I could get with a dollar, today it has reached 1.1 dollar. Is there any meal or lunch I could get below a dollar? yes there is, but mostly are not a good healthy one.
So today it might be the last 1 USD saga post I could make here... Although actually this was from a couple months ago
I often come to the rice hut like this, a traditional fast food lol which you just point your finger or name the food you like. Each Rice hut or stalls have different menu, and even they have a same menu, the taste could differ a lot. This is the most common way how office workers could get their budget lunch here in Jakarta.
Anyway this place is quite near my office and their taste is famously known for being terrible lol.
So this was my order, and as you could see it well clear... all were in red lol. This was my common strategy, if I was not sure the taste could be a decent one, I just ordered the strongest flavor one, and most of the time it was the spicy and the hottest one.
In my plate, there are 3 dishes on it. So let't talk them in detail...
The first one was my vegetable dish. It was a stir fried eggplant in red chilli paste. Basically it was a common fried eggplant, fried decently which means not too dried, and you can see it had some red chili paste all around them. It was not that hot, so the chili was not the same as the red chili sambal.
These were the other dished on my plate. On the left one, we had stir fried tempeh (soy cake) in chili red paste lol. A very similar dish with the first one, and this one was actually my frequent order because I believed Tempeh was a good non meat protein source. Many vegetarians and vegans depend their protein intake from this tempeh or soy cake.
on the right side, it was stir fried clams and again, in red chili paste lol. So everything were red chili paste stir fried cooking style, but all were different dishes cooked by that style lol. Clams were actually a bad choice, they tasted great but getting clams from budget stall or budget meal places... That was quite suicidal lol. But it was all for the sake of budget meal lol, I could not eat them if I had no stir fried clams there.
And that's my one dollar lunch saga today, which could be my last one. As I wish price would go down again, we all know that it would not happen at all. I think that's all I could say for today. See you next time and take care yourself!
Thank you for coming and reading my post. I live in Jakarta, Ex-Capital City of Indonesia. I used to live by making money online, that's why I like being here, on HIVE, and in #PIMP - (Paper In My Pocket) community. Feel Free to leave any comment below